1E2TOOLS(7)             Miscellaneous Information Manual             E2TOOLS(7)
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NAME

6       e2tools -  utilities to manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem
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DESCRIPTION

9       E2tools is a simple set of GPL'ed utilities to read, write, and manipu‐
10       late files  in  an  ext2/ext3  filesystem.  These  utilities  access  a
11       filesystem  directly  using  the ext2fs library. I wrote these tools in
12       order to copy files into a linux filesystem on a machine that does  not
13       have  ext2 support. Of course, they can also be used on a linux machine
14       to read/write to disk images or floppies without having to  mount  them
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17       Supported functionality:
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19       e2cp   copy files
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30       e2ls   list files/directories
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34       In  general,  to  specify a directory or file on an ext2 filesystem for
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39       The filesystem can be an unmounted partition or a regular  file  that's
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SEE ALSO

56       e2cp(1), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2mv(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).
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AUTHOR

59       The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.
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61       This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for  the
62       Debian project (but may be used by others).
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66                                 March 2, 2005                      E2TOOLS(7)
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